Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men.

[Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's always jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes you put on her, she's the same old broad.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

I've always been crazy about playing.

That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in sports, basketball, football, nothing.